NANA AKUFO-ADDO APPEALS FOR URGENT RESOLUTION TO POTAG
STRIKE
Today is exactly four weeks since the lecturers of
Polytechnic institutions across the country resumed their
strike action over their remunerations.
The direct consequence of this prolonged strike action is
two-fold. First, it means the concerns of the membership of
Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) are yet to
be addressed satisfactorily to cause their return to the
classroom. Second, it means that the critical training of a
significant class of our nation’s future, Polytechnic
students, numbering more than 50,000, is being severely
disturbed as they are forced to stay out of the classroom.
By this statement, I am appealing to His Excellency, the
President of the Republic, Prof J E A Mills, to use his high
office to intervene, with urgency, to bring this strike
action to an end. I and other well meaning Ghanaians
acknowledge the intervention he made in a similar strike
action by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG),
which helped to bring that particular action to an end.
Also, I wish to also appeal to POTAG to continue to
cooperate, specifically, for a quick resolution to this
strike, which has brought the nation’s Polytechnic education
to its knees. This crisis must come to an end and fast.
In support of this end, I have also advised the NPP members
of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education to
impress upon the Committee to actively assist, as honest
brokers, in the necessary process of bringing the POTAG
strike to an end.
The future development of our dear nation rests on the
education of our youth.
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